The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-06-23
VANCE ANDCLEVELAND.
POINTS AND DIFFERENCE BE-
TWEEN TWO GREAT MEN.

POINTS AND DIFFERENCE BE-
TWEEN TWO GREAT MEN.
Senator Vance is Not Opposed to MIR.
Cleveland, but he is Opposed to his /
Administration.
Hon. Il. B. Vance, Black Mountain,
Buncombe County, N. c.
My DEAR GOVERNOR Il have
for some days contemplated writing
you in regard to the published ref
erences to yourself since your depart !
ure from this city to your mountain
home in the early part of March |
last. Several articles in the form of
interviews have appeared in the
newspapers, with the apparent pur-
pose of injuring you at home or of
damaging you in your relations with
President Cleveland. As [ know
that you are out of the reach of in
terviewers and reporters, and that
you are not out of harmony with
the Administration, [ am at loss
to account for the fictitious and sim
ister articles which are almost con-
tinually re-appearing, commencing,
so far as / have noticed, in the st.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Such articles are commonly HARM
less but in this matter / think that
for your own sake you should make
some statement in regard to these
persistent and gratuitous misrepre-
sentations
[ enclose one Of these articles, now
rehashed with a lengthy addition.
This is the most recent alleged inter-
view that has come under my obser-
vation. Sincerely yours,
JAMES J.. NORRIS.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 12.
Mr.. James L. Norris, President
Jackson Democratic Association.
DEAR SIR:-I have to thank you
for the regard for my political well
fare which prompted you to write
the letter which I have before me-
In response thereto, I have to say
the interview to which you allude as
given by the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat never took place. [ have no
earthly recollection of having ever
been interviewed by correspondent
of that paper; but while / disavow
the interview and language attribut-
ed to me as used toward the Presi-
dent, I cannot complain of a misrep-
resentation of my sentiments concern
ing his policy. | am not in harmony
with him in several important par
ticulars, but believe [ do harmonic
with the Democratic party, as its
professions and practices have made
its principles known to me.
1 have favored the double stand
ard of gold and silver without dis
elimination for or against either,
which the President does not.
I have favored the payment of the
public debt in the legal coin of the
United States according to the plain
words printed on the face of the Sc
curities, and the President does not.
/ have favored that 'honest civil
service reform" which the Democrat
ic Convention at Chicago, which
nominated Mr.. Cleveland, demand
ed, and which the Democrats of the
/ United States thought they were to
get when they voted for him that
reform which consisted in ejecting
Republican officials from the offices
they had prostituted and abused, but
the President does not.
I have favored the application Of
the principles of "home rule" to the
District of Columbia, the only dis
franchised portion of the American
J, people, and a Difference to then
, wishes in the appointment of theil
local officials, but the President does
not.
} In these important matters ane
some others not SO important, l have
the misfortune to agree with the
Democratic party rather than with
the President.
J But, so far as / am aware, there
has been no want of harmony in tn,
{ personal relations between him ant
; me. / have said nothing of him il
any way unbecoming the languag
: which Senator should use towart
: the President of the United States
IF he cannot bear, without offence
i the candid criticism of those friend
E who differ with him, he is unworth,
7 of his great office. Should I, fo
i the sake of the patronage he has t
Z bestow, suppress or forego my hon
e est convictions, / would prove un
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